Sixty-five years ago this month, Gen. George S. Patton Jr., hero of World War II and an outspoken critic of the Soviets, was en route to a Sunday hunting trip, a day before permanently leaving Europe, when he was critically injured in a vehicle accident on a deserted two lane highway near Mannheim, Germany.

A large US army truck that Pattons driver later said was waiting for them, suddenly  and without signaling  abruptly turned into his limousines path, causing a head-on crash. Even though Patton had an aide with him and the driver of the truck had one or two passengers in the cab, no one but Patton was hurt. He suffered a paralyzing broken neck.

Despite it being early on a no-work day, a horde of military personnel, including a brigadier general, quickly arrived at the scene. And although there were facilities in Mannheim, he was taken to a hospital 20 miles away where, when he arrived, the prognosis was bad. They expected him to die.

But the tough general, vowing to go home and tell block-busting secrets, rallied. And in a little over a week he was fit enough to be readied for a grueling trans-Atlantic flight home. On the eve of that flight, he had a sudden relapse. Blood embolisms choked his breathing. Within 24 hours he was dead.

I don't know much about the circumstances surrounding Gen. Patton's death, but I know a bit about his life and what he meant to our nation. I only half jokingly ask God that if he could spare Ronald Reagan and George Patton for a while, we sure could use them back here in the USA right now to straighten things out.

A few more if they're not doing anything...George Washington, JP Jones, Thomas Jefferson (along with James Madison, if for nothing else, to explain to the ACLU what was meant in our founding documents) Stonewall Jackson and Blackjack Pershing.

As much as one wants to believe our government would not have one of its greatest warriors iced, both his popularity and outspoken anti-communist views certainly would have been a huge impediment to the post-war agreements hammered out a Yalta. We're only now coming to grips with (and paying for) the level of communist infiltration into western diplomatic and intelligence circles. I can't say definitively that the OSS killed Patton, but I think it would be safe to assert that there's more to the circumstances surrounding his death than has been publicly aired.

It wouldn’t be too surprising. Roosevelt was surrounded by Communists, and was virtually a Communist himself. And although Harry Truman seems to be viewed more sympathetically by conservatives now than he was at the time, he was responsible for giving China to the Communists.

Patton, of course, wanted to take Berlin for the western allies, before the Russians got there, but he was not permitted to do it. Roosevelt had agreed to hand over Eastern Europe to good old Uncle Joe, as he was commonly called during the war.

He was murdered because of his staunch Conservative stance and his threat to the emerging new world order of which he was opposed and vocal. He was going to run for US Senator from CA and expose what he new and fight it. He was aggressive with the Soviets and did a lot to keep refugees out of Soviet hands, played a lot of cat-n-mouse with them and won more often then not. Yup, he was murdered, its really just a question of which Government got him first.

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posted on 12/19/2010 12:31:33 PM PST
by 95B30
( The Professional Left: "Their morals are crooked, their logic is flawed, their honor is stolen)

It is clear Pattons death has been covered up. I think there is sufficient reason to initiate an official investigation. Until the truth is revealed, the rumors will persist, crucial history may be lost and an enormous crime may go unpunished. Patton deserves better.

I think that it is pretty clear that Pattons death will go unpunished regardless of the results of any investigation.

As this article points out the driver of the truck is already dead. Those who ordered the assassination undoubtedly would be even older than the driver ensuring that they also are already dead.

Yes certainly Pattons death should be investigated but the opportunity for punishment is long gone.

He would not have started a war, but he would have been impossible to ignore, along with Macarthur on the subject of partial warfare, political BS. He most assuredly was killed by forces within our own govt.

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posted on 12/19/2010 12:37:10 PM PST
by runninglips
(Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)

And it is even stranger that while President’s Lincoln’s name was Lincoln and Lincoln was born on a Continent, he choose not to drive a Lincoln Continental, but a Cadillac, which was named after a French explorer!

This is the release in paperback of a book first published in 2008. I went through it then and compared to other books and to the doctor’s statement on Patton’s death. The surgeon was flown to Germany from the US and was on the same plane with Mrs. Patton. Reading his report, discounts these post-war speculations. One of the reasons for the “medical facilities 20 miles away” instead of in Mannheim, was that the facility was much better quality.

There has been speculation that it was a hit since the day that it happened. But the only evidence anyone has ever actually been able to produce is the obvious fact that Stalin had a motive to kill him. No actual evidence that he did.

Why is everything (it seems) a conspiracy here at FR? Patton, as he was prone to do, was sitting on the edge of his seat in the back of the vehicle in which he was a passenger. The back seat arrangement was designed to accommodate senior officers ... with several feet of room between the seat and the partition separating the driver. Patton was thrown some distance and as a result broke his neck. He never recovered to the extent he was being prepared to be flown home ... his wife (who flew in from the U.S.) was at his side the last few days. It was an accident people ... they happen with tragic consequences all the time.

General Patton was a great American and a great soldier. However, he was (at least for a time) anti-Semitic (unfortunately) and also seemed to share Charles Lindbergh's opinion that the struggle between the West and Russia was racial rather than ideological.

Of course, this doesn't change his role in defeating the Nazis and helping to expose the Holocaust to the world.

6) Last, but NOT least, Patton was the ONLY World War general with the "brains" and non-PC attitude to write and mass-distribute the famous "Bastogne Prayer" ... whose successful clearing of the skies allowed the US Army Airforce to decimate the German forces ...

General Patton "clearly" acknowledged the Lordship of The Almighty in this event ...

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General Patton was the kind of man that Americans will "always" want to follow into battle ...

FDR was reelected in 44 and would not stand for reelection, and coronation, until 48. I am not so sure Patton would have been his adversary. Truman was always worried about MacArthur and of course that never came to fruition either as MacArthur lost the first primary he was in effectively killing any hope he could win.

That said, I do believe there was a conspiracy to take him out. He openly was using former Nazi party members. While our OSS was also using these same people, they did not wish it to be become an issue after the war ended. So, I believe our own government had more to do with his demise than did the soviets although I would not put it past them. They did try to take out Gen Haig years later when he was in charge of SHAPE. Interestingly, they tried to kill him while he was in a vehicle.

This picture was taken at the exact moment that Garfield was told about the assassination of President Garfield. At first glance, he appears to be surprised, but if you stare at the picture for a few moments, you will notice that it is not a look of surprise, but rather elation.

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